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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoycott the Chicago Cubs
A billionaire investor whose family owns the Chicago Cubs is pressing ahead with a multimillion-dollar pro-Republican political campaign, bucking a political furor that emerged when the effort first become public.
Joe Ricketts, the founder of what became online brokerage TD Ameritrade Inc., plans to spend $10 million airing ads supporting GOP nominee Mitt Romney and another $2 million to help Republicans running for Congress. The ads will begin airing this week.
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443720204578000490604078074.html
Joe Ricketts, the founder of what became online brokerage TD Ameritrade Inc., plans to spend $10 million airing ads supporting GOP nominee Mitt Romney and another $2 million to help Republicans running for Congress. The ads will begin airing this week.
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443720204578000490604078074.html
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Boycott the Chicago Cubs (Original Post)
cthulu2016
Sep 2012
OP
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)1. May the Curse of the Billy Goat continue for another 103 years
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)2. A world championship has been boycotting the Cubs for 104 years...
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)3. The bad karma never ends for the hapless Cubs.
It is now one of the constants of the universe.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)4. Crappy baseball team supports crappy candidate
The Cubs are, in fact, the second-worst team in baseball. (Holy moly, the Disastros are bad!!!)
Obama's White Sox, meanwhile, are leading their division.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)5. Not a Cubs fan anyway.